Proverbs 9:15

15 And as people walk by minding their own business, calls out,

Proverbs 9:15 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 9:15

To call passengers who go right on their ways.
] Who have been religiously educated, and trained up in the principles of true Christianity; and who walk outwardly according to the rule of the divine word, and are in a fair way for heaven and eternal happiness. These she has her eye upon as they pass along, and calls unto them, and endeavours to turn them aside out of the way they are going, to make them proselytes to her antichristian religion; which, when she succeeds in, she glories and boasts of; just as harlots are very desirous of seducing and debauching chaste, innocent, and virtuous persons; see ( Revelation 2:20 ) . Saying as follows:

Proverbs 9:15 In-Context

13 Then there's this other woman, Madame Whore - brazen, empty-headed, frivolous.
14 She sits on the front porch of her house on Main Street,
15 And as people walk by minding their own business, calls out,
16 "Are you confused about life, don't know what's going on?
17 Steal off with me, I'll show you a good time! No one will ever know - I'll give you the time of your life."
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